Image description: Holly-Anne, a white woman in a floral dress, sitting under a tree in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens.
Holly-Anne Turner
Ireland
March 31, 2026
The hangover flora: Plant survivors of the end-Permian hyperthermal extinction event
The end-Permian extinction event (EPE; 252 Ma) was the most extreme mass extinction in Earth’s history. In Gondwana, the EPE resulted in a turnover from the Glossopteris-dominated flora of the Permian to the Dicroidium-dominated flora of the Triassic. Early Triassic Dicroidium records are rare, and our understanding of how and when this ecologically important taxon rose to dominance is lacking. By analysing plant diversity, plant-arthropod interactions and estimating atmospheric CO₂, using Early Triassic Dicroidium fossils from the Sydney Basin, we aim to provide a gauge of ecosystem recovery and carbon sink stabilisation in Gondwana following the EPE.
Image description: Adam using planktonic foraminifera to date sediments on IODP Expedition 398 in the Aegean Sea.
Adam Woodhouse
UK
April 7, 2026
Micropaleontology
TBD
Pal(a)eoPERCS 